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The Movies Industry is currently embracing a new trend by selecting many classic books for film adaptations. An example of this trend is the epic poem Beowulf, which dates back to Anglo Saxon times and is known as the earliest poem in modern European language. In 2007, American director Robert Zemeckis accepted the challenge of…

Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are two of the great jazz voices of the 20th century and though they both sang jazz standards and pop tunes of the time they both had their own distinct style. They have recorded much of the same songs but no one can be in doubt that they are listening…

Comments on The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism” by Craig Owens. In this 1983 essay, Owens demonstrates an admirable grasp of postmodernism and feminism and their confluence in the visual arts. He combines advanced theories from Fredric Jameson, French post-structuralists,” and French feminists with meticulous readings of concrete visual arts by feminist and female…

The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichol’s in 1967, is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is stuck in the middle of his past and his future. Throughout the film, you learn that Benjamin is a lonely young man who is confused about what to do since he has graduated. During a graduation party…

The Conflicts of Hardship and Marriage Eugene O’Neill’s play “Before Breakfast” shows an unhappily married couple living out sad lives that they never imagined when they were first married. The story tells of what could happen when dreams and aspirations are dashed by cold reality and hardship. As a result, we see two desperate people…

The Departures are a Japanese film that encapsulates the theme of love in terms of words and actions. This is a plot-oriented film which has a surprising element on how the story develops; from a cellist then to a job far from what he really had imagined- preparing dead bodies for funerals. What’s amazing about…

“Stick Figure” by Lori Gottlieb provides a first-person perspective on a young girl’s struggle with anorexia nervosa. The book consists of diary entries written when Lori was only eleven years old. Through these personal accounts, we gain insight into the factors that fueled her obsession with being thin, particularly her mother and peers who shared…

He went up to his friends and asked for some money so he could go far away, ut no one helped him. The problem of dealing with this is a stress for him, now he has got to think of a plan where he could go away and not spend any money, so he went…

Cristof’s creation and the Garden of Eden parallel on many accounts and throughout both the simalarities and difference became quite clear. The two worlds had many elements of utopian thought which makes both worlds perfect. Furthermore, that element, utopianism, would make anyone want to leave because through reality we learn nothing is real. Throughout “The…

Diego Rivera Paris 1914 Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 5/8″ (65.1 x 54.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY Jacque Lipchitz (Portrait of a Young Man), by renown Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera is a portrait of his sculptor friend, Jacques Lipchitz, done during the ten years Rivera lived in Paris. Rivera…